{"id":733,"date":"2013-01-05T23:49:32","date_gmt":"2013-01-05T23:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/?p=733"},"modified":"2013-03-26T21:25:22","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T21:25:22","slug":"christmas-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/05\/christmas-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas cards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Quick Adsense WordPress Plugin: http:\/\/quickadsense.com\/ -->\n<div class=\"48e5397a39c6ea4ae31e40d674b2fea7\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- july 2019 -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-9380921822254336\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"9798147637\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sometimes I receive a Christmas card which I like too much to throw away on 12th night.<br \/>\nI tend to keep some maybe just in case no-one sends me a card next year! Perhaps when I\u2019m old and friendless I\u2019ll be able to put up cards that I have kept and still feel surrounded by the love of old friends, who are no longer around to send cards.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-739\" alt=\"framed Christmas card\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/1-IMG_3778-300x277.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/1-IMG_3778-300x277.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/1-IMG_3778.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This card I loved so much I wanted to make something with it, so I decided to frame it, it will still get packed away with the Christmas decorations and come out every year but it will not get tatty or bent out of shape.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-734\" alt=\"charity shop frames\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/1-IMG_3760-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/1-IMG_3760-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/1-IMG_3760.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I took charity shop frames,<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-735\" alt=\"sand your frame\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/1-IMG_3762-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/1-IMG_3762-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/1-IMG_3762.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>sanded and spray painted them,<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-736\" alt=\"spray painted frame\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/1-IMG_3763-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/1-IMG_3763-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/1-IMG_3763.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>used red wrapping paper to mount the card on.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-738\" alt=\"framed card and decoration\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/1-IMG_3781-300x154.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"154\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/1-IMG_3781-300x154.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/1-IMG_3781.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Wanting to have something to hang alongside it and not being able to find another card of a similar type I bought a little felt tree decoration, from a budget store, it doesn\u2019t entirely work , I\u2019ll keep looking out for another paper cut card.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I receive a Christmas card which I like too much to throw away on 12th night. this is one way to preserve them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[63,11,5],"tags":[67,64,65,944,949,66],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":964,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions\/964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mycrosspatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}